Find old towns and counties long-since disappeared from the map or that have changed names. AniMap displays over 2,300 maps to show the changing county boundaries for each of the adjacent United States for every year since colonial times. Essential software for U.S. research. You can also purchase the CD-version of AniMap.

System Requirements

IBM PC compatible with Windows 3.1 or higher

VGA or SVGA display

16 MB RAM

Mouse

Installation options allow you to put maps and database files on your hard drive for convenience and faster access

Features

Finding those old towns and counties. Just about every researcher deals with the problem of finding an old town that has long-since disappeared from the map. Or, you have a known location but it was not in the same county 100 or 200 years ago. AniMap Plus now has solutions to these problems.

AniMap will display over 2,300 maps to show the changing county boundaries for each of the 48 adjacent United States for every year since colonial times. Includes all years, not just the census years. Maps may be viewed separately, or the program can set them in motion so you can automatically view the boundary changes. Maps of the full U.S. are also included showing all the changes in state and territorial boundaries from 1776 to the present.

Each map includes a listing of the changes from the previous map making it simple to keep track of parent counties. There are four speed adjustments in the "run" mode as well as being able to advance by single frames.

Mark the spot. A unique "place marker" feature allows you to place up to 50 markers of varying designs and colors on a map, then change the year to observe the placement (the maps remain in the same position and scale on the screen). This is very convenient for marking the location of towns that were shifted from one county to another. You can save sets of markers for future reference and a new feature which will let you add labels to your markers.

SiteFinder databases included. SiteFinder contains listings for more than 1 million places in the United States plus more than 120,000 variant names. Each listing gives the name of the place, the county where it is (or was) located, and includes latitude-longitude coordinates for 97% of them. With a few mouse clicks, you can pluck items from SiteFinder and plot them on the maps in AniMap Plus ... complete with labels.

Included in the listings are: Cities & towns, townships, Railroad Stations, Trading Posts, Farms & Ranches, Plantations, Ruins,Country Schools, Mining Camps, Ghost Towns ...and more.The SiteFinder Cemetery database is also included which lists locations for more than 100,000 cemeteries throughout the U.S.

Much of the information in SiteFinder has been extracted from the US Geological Survey files and records of the US Post Office. Many of the locations are places that are no longer in existence or those that have had name changes. While it does not list every place that ever existed, we believe you will find it to be the best source available.

The SiteFinder browsing software will search for names (partial or complete), do wild card searches if you are unsure about the spelling or have unreadable letters in the name. You can also get a complete list of sites in any given county. A new feature in our browser lets you retrieve a list of locations within a specified number of miles (between 1 and 99) from your chosen location.

Plot towns on your maps. You can pluck items from the SiteFinder databases and plot them directly on the map with just a few clicks of your mouse. The location will appear on your map and remain in place when you switch the map to different years.

Lattitude/Longitude and mileage. A display on the AniMap screen shows you that latitude and longitude coordinates of the cursor. Another feature will let you measure the mileage between any two points on the map.

Print or export. All maps can be printed directly from the program, in black-and-white or color, or you may export them to a Bitmap (.bmp) file to use in word processing or desktop publishing programs. You can also use a paintbrush program to enhance the maps with additional text, colors, etc.

Overlays. There are latitude-longitude overlays built into the program as well as the ability to overlay the map for one year on any other. New in version 2.5 are overlays for railroads, waterways, and township/range grids for the public land states.